SPOILER Theory: Shattered Twilight (Mild 2.0 spoilers)

Today, I thought of a possibly MASSIVE piece of lore. This theory would explain what the Blueshift Archipelago really is, why there is no corruption beast, Garaheth, why the Realm of Light is only named that, etc.


This theory started in my mind when I was discussing the idea of a "corruption beast" with the Wynntheory discord. Something I had missed completely when playing Realm of Light 4 was a pretty major thing that the Guardian of the Forest says:

According to the Guardian of the Forest, the Realm of Light, Realm of Darkness and the Realm of War are all realms of influence, and each realm of influence must have a Beast. If this is so, why does Bak'al not serve a corruption beast? Why does Orphion never bring up a corruption beast? How does a corruption beast play into Ne Du Valeos Du Ellach? It simply doesn't work. And we know that Corruption forms from the clash of light and dark, which is strange since apparently the Realm of War would influence... war? War is completely unrelated to light and dark, so why would this be the case?

I have a big theory about what Dern, the Nether, and the Realm of Light really are. So I'll just say it before I present my evidence and thoughts:

There used to be one, unified Realm of Light.
This Realm of Light influenced the light, the shadows, and everything related to them. Orphion and the Dern beast were one, but not the same individual (perhaps some kind of two-headed beast). After a power dispute, they separated, causing great damage to the realm and splitting it into three parts. The Realm of Darkness, the Realm of Light, and the Realm of War.

This may seem a little ludicrous, but there's evidence that needs to be shown. First of all, the Blueshift Archipelago and other dernic void islands. I think that the reason they're really there is actually because, when the old Realm of Light crumbled into three realms, a lot of its land collapsed into the void from imbalance and transformed the main land into three large sky islands. We haven't seen the Nether or Dern yet (the old Nether is outdated), and the realm of light follows this. This doesn't really prove it, but it makes sense.

When we go to the Realm of Light, Lari says this:

the Realm of Light used to be a large sky island (or an archipelago of them), but as of the Decay, it has either drifted apart or collapsed.

The Dern Beast's dialogue in Ne Du Valeos du Ellach also suggests that he and Orphion were once one, or at least friends of some kind.




Also, the Dern Beast says this:

which may provide evidence for this theory, but may also refer to the seams between the Plane of Existence and the realms cracking.

Here is a crude model of the three realms:

Spoiler: realms

So what is the corruption?
There isn't really any evidence for this, so it's more of a wild guess than anything, but what if Corruption is some kind of universal rule where, if two forces of influence turn upon each other, the result of their clash creates corruption to prevent one from taking power from another. Instead, they can only destroy each other. By using the Parasite, the Dern Beast is trying to bypass this universal rule by simply cleansing the Light entirely or taking control of it.

If this is true, then my theory as to what the Realm of War really is can be explained, too. If there was once one unified Realm, then it would make sense for there to by a halfway point. I believe that half of the realm was dedicated to Light, and the other half was dedicated to Dark. There was a large point in the middle which was a peaceful combination of the two, which we'll just call Twilight since Bridge of the Divide has normalized that idea. When the beasts split and started the War of the Realms, the Twilight area immediately became a corrupted wasteland of what used to be. When Garoth says he saw "it", what he actually saw was the destroyed remnant of what once was a great peaceful realm, ravaged by war. The nether is actually called the Realm of War because it's a battleground for the Light and Dark, and a sort of no-man's-land between the two. Not because it's a realm of influence, like the Guardian of the Forest suggests.

Here's some extra notes:

If this is true, it disproves the "Wynncraft Multiverse" theory. There is one plane of influence, and one plane of reality. So one may question "What is Garaheth's realm?". Simple. It's the "Realm of Fire", the realm of influence for the Fire element. You may also ask what that weird place Slykaar has is, but since it resembles one of the void areas seen in A Journey Further, it could just be that.

I also wanted to suggest why the Dern Beast had a power dispute with Orphion. I think it's simple. The Dern Beast felt that it should govern the Darkness on its own without Orphion's help, but Orphion refused since he knew that splitting in two would damage the realm greatly. This angered the Dern beast, who split anyway and decided to cleanse the world of the Light in the War of the Realms. This also gives the player a reason to side with Orphion. If the player can convince the Dern Beast to stop fighting and rejoin Orphion, they can restore balance to the greater Realm of Light and stop the corruption once and for all.

One more thing, I think the reason the Realm of Light doesn't have a special name like Dern is actually because the unified realm was known as the "Realm of Light" and Orphion decided to keep the name.

This isn't a theory I'm too confident in, but I'm posting it because it's a cool idea and I want to see what other people think.

 

redundancy moment

 

is this not what my thread says

 

nvm then thank you Samsam101 for pointing this out

 

like it a lot. Though I'd call the joined realm simply Realm of Influence as calling both the old and new realms as Realm of Light is confusing a bit

edit: nvm missed the part in the post talking about it still I'd call the old thing realm of influence as there was more to it than just light

 

(juts dropping it here to have it mentioned outside the discord, we talked about it already)

This theory doesn't explain how does the Realm of War still exists. If the realms grow and shrink with their Beast's power (see Lari's dialogue in RoL V), then after the Original Beast ceased to exist, so should have the realm.
This could have a few explanations, for example the Corruption keeps it somehow alive or a fragment of the Original Beast survived.